In the last chapter we said that "object" or, 'subject-matter" cannot be conceived of in the absence of the objective/subjective distinction. We clearly need objectivity, and then objects to be able to move beyond the parameter of the mere relative qualitative richness of the present moment of consciousness. Restricted to that dimension our universum would be too impoverished to allow articulation and thought. Should we then try to think of some paradigmatic idea we would need to understand how this is possible. Our early attempts at specifying the austerity of genuine pre-conditions of knowledge might now appear not to have been radical enough. This might seem surprising, for the natural reaction to what was then suggested might easily have been that it went too far in the other direction.